Do you like my canvas art? I’m calling it “shit runs downhill“. I’m thinking about mounting it on my wall to remind me of the perils of HODLing altcoins. After finding out that altcoin index funds don’t really work, I put together a data visualisation of altcoin…

Bitcoin was created in 2009 by a mysterious character who claimed it to be a payments network. But unlike most other payment networks like PayPal and Visa, it screwed with our minds by having its own token. A token that had a price that floated against other currencies. In basic…

Last week I created the Commerce Index as a means to measure a coin’s suitability for general commerce. In a nutshell it tracks the property of liquidity and low volatility. Both consumers and merchants want a currency that is stable and has high enough liquidity at the exchanges such…

This year, the idea of managed portfolios and index fund portfolios has been on the rise, you can bet on many hitting the market in 2017. It’s a popular idea borrowed from Wall Street. For stocks 99% of index funds, namely a fund that buys the entire market passively,…

I’ve decided to come up with a new index to measure how suitable a coin is for generable purpose commerce. For a consumer to hold a coin in their wallet, they want good liquidity and low volatility. Similarly the merchant on the other side of the transaction want the…

Seen this price pattern? Yes? Here’s another one… The first graph is XRP/Ripple, while the second one LTC/Litecoin. But really it could have been any altcoin through to 2014 so you should be familiar with it. It’s what I call the “Shitcoin Pattern”. Prior to 2015,…

I ran some charts on the top 10 coins by marketcap, to see how they individually performed had you invested 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 months ago. Here’s my results. The conclusions are unclear but some thoughts come to mind: Over the long term (2 years or more)…

LAST UPDATE 7 JAN 2018 Investors in this space will need a good solution for storing your various crypto-assets, so I thought I’d make mention of Exodus Wallet. It’s beautiful to use, reliable, and in fast development. The document addresses the most common question from the community -…

Metcalfe’s Law states the value of a network is proportional to the number of members squared. I thought it’d be fun to run the numbers on the Bitcoin Network. Since we don’t have solid figures on the number of active users on the network, I’ve had…